Odd Wisdom

Diego Pinera is a unique figure who is genuinely taking music in new directions by juxtaposing the polyrhythmic freedom of jazz with other metric systems. As he says, "I studied music in the places where it came from." He started playing drums as a four-year old in Montevideo. His student years were spent in Havana, Boston (Berklee) and Leipzig. Based in Berlin since 2003, he has continued to widen his musical horizons, immersing himself in the 'odd' meters of the title through extensive work

with Berlin-based musicians from Greece and Bulgaria.

"Odd Wisdom" is a significant and personal album. "It brings together all of the sounds and rhythms that I have been working on for the past decade." Pinera gathered a dream team from the New York top flight together for just one day at the Trading 8s studio in New Jersey: Donny McCaslin, Ben Monder and Scott Colley have already made their mark in countless other contexts, and they are on spellbinding form here.